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Just last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced that fake cancer medicines had been shipped to American oncologists from foreign sources. This should serve as a wake-up call that we must not rest on our laurels; rather, we must continue to focus on effective policy solutions that can help prevent the worldwide counterfeit medicine threat from seeping into our borders and contaminating the closed U.S. drug supply system.
 
Since this particular incident, there has been an outcry by members of Congress and the public alike to do more to protect patients, and rightly so. With up to 30 percent of medicines in some developing countries counterfeit, it is critical that we grab the bull by its horns and take meaningful steps forward in safeguarding our nation from this threat.   

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